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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Desktop Migration and Administration Guide GNOME 3 desktop migration planning, deployment, configuration, and administration in RHEL 7 Last Updated: 2021-05-05 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Desktop Migration and Administration Guide GNOME 3 desktop migration planning, deployment, configuration, and administration in RHEL 7 Marie Doleželová Red Hat Customer Content Services [email protected] Petr Kovář Red Hat Customer Content Services [email protected] Jana Heves Red Hat Customer Content Services Legal Notice Copyright © 2018 Red Hat, Inc. This document is licensed by Red Hat under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you distribute this document, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat, Inc. and provide a link to the original. If the document is modified, all Red Hat trademarks must be removed. Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Shadowman logo, the Red Hat logo, JBoss, OpenShift, Fedora, the Infinity logo, and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux ® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. Java ® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. XFS ® is a trademark of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. MySQL ® is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States, the European Union and other countries. Node.js ® is an official trademark of Joyent. Red Hat is not formally related to or endorsed by the official Joyent Node.js open source or commercial project. The OpenStack ® Word Mark and OpenStack logo are either registered trademarks/service marks or trademarks/service marks of the OpenStack Foundation, in the United States and other countries and are used with the OpenStack Foundation's permission. We are not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation, or the OpenStack community. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Abstract The Desktop Migration and Administration Guide documents the GNOME 3 Desktop migration planning, deployment, configuration, and administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. It is oriented towards system administrators with a basic understanding of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. Table of Contents Table of Contents .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 1.. .I .N . T. .R .O . .D . U. .C . I.N . .G . .T . H. .E . .G . N. .O . .M . .E . 3. D. .E . S. K. .T . O. .P . .4 . 1.1. WHAT IS GNOME 3? 4 1.2. WHAT IS GNOME SHELL? 5 1.3. WHAT IS GNOME CLASSIC? 6 1.4. NOTE ON ACCESSIBILITY 8 .P .A . R. .T . .I .. M. I.G . R. .A . T. .I O. N. P. .L .A . N. N. .I N. .G . 1.0 . .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 2. L. .O . G. I.N . D. .1 .1 . GETTING MORE INFORMATION 12 .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 3. G. S. .E .T . T. .I N. .G . .S . A. .N . .D . .D . C. .O . N. F. 1. 3. GETTING MORE INFORMATION 13 .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 4. .P . O. .L . I.C . Y. .K . I.T . 1.4 . 4.1. POLICY CONFIGURATION 14 4.2. DEFAULT POLICY 14 4.3. CHECKING PERMISSIONS FROM SCRIPTS 15 4.4. EXTENDING POLKIT CONFIGURATION 15 .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 5. G. D. .M . 1.6 . GETTING MORE INFORMATION 16 .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 6. .G . N. .O . .M . .E . S. .H . E. .L .L . .E . X. .T . E. N. S. I.O . .N . S. 1. 7. 6.1. REPLACEMENT FOR THE CLOCK APPLET 17 .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 7. G. N. .O . .M . E. .- .S . E. S. .S . I.O . .N . 1.8 . GETTING MORE INFORMATION 18 .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 8. .I N. .T . E. R. .N . .A . T. I.O . .N . A. .L . I.Z . A. .T .I O. N. 1.9 . 8.1. INPUT METHODS 19 8.2. CHANGED FILE LOCATIONS 19 .P .A . R. .T . .I I.. .C . O. N. .F . I.G . U. .R . A. .T . I.O . .N . .A . N. .D . .A . D. .M . .I N. I.S .T . R. .A . T. .I O. .N . .2 . 0. .C . H. .A . P. .T .E . R. 9. .C . O. .N . F. .I G. U. .R . I.N . G. D. E. S. .K . T. .O . P. W. I.T . H. G. .S . E. .T . T. I.N . .G . S. A. .N . D. D. .C . O. N. .F . 2. .1 . 9.1. TERMINOLOGY EXPLAINED: GSETTINGS, GSETTINGS, AND DCONF 21 9.2. USER AND SYSTEM SETTINGS 21 9.3. BROWSING GSETTINGS VALUES FOR DESKTOP APPLICATIONS 21 9.4. WHAT ARE DCONF PROFILES? 22 9.5. CONFIGURING CUSTOM DEFAULT VALUES 23 9.6. GSETTINGS KEYS PROPERTIES 25 9.7. STORING USER SETTINGS OVER NFS 26 .C ..